Psalms 23:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You make ready a table for me in front of my haters: you put oil on my head; my cup is overflowing.

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  • Ps 16:5 : 5 The Lord is my heritage and the wine of my cup; you are the supporter of my right.
  • Ps 92:10 : 10 But my horn is lifted up like the horn of the ox: the best oil is flowing on my head.
  • Ps 45:7 : 7 You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.
  • Eph 3:20 : 20 Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,
  • Ps 31:19-20 : 19 O how great is your grace, which you have put in store for your worshippers, and which you have made clear to those who had faith in you, before the sons of men! 20 You will keep them safe in your house from the designs of man; in the secret of your tent will you keep them from angry tongues.
  • Job 36:16 : 16 ...
  • Ps 22:26 : 26 The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever.
  • 1 John 2:20 : 20 And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge.
  • 1 John 2:27 : 27 As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.
  • John 16:22 : 22 So you have sorrow now: but I will see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and no one will take away your joy.
  • John 6:53-56 : 53 Then Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you do not take the flesh of the Son of man for food, and if you do not take his blood for drink, you have no life in you. 54 He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink has eternal life: and I will take him up from the dead at the last day. 55 My flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. 56 He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink is in me and I in him.
  • John 10:9-9 : 9 I am the door: if any man goes in through me he will have salvation, and will go in and go out, and will get food. 10 The thief comes only to take the sheep and to put them to death: he comes for their destruction: I have come so that they may have life and have it in greater measure.
  • 1 Cor 10:16 : 16 The cup of blessing which we take, does it not give us a part in the blood of Christ? and is not the broken bread a taking part in the body of Christ?
  • 2 Cor 1:21 : 21 Now he who makes our faith strong together with you, in Christ, and has given us of his grace, is God;
  • Ps 22:29 : 29 All the fat ones of the earth will give him worship; all those who go down to the dust will make themselves low before him, even he who has not enough for the life of his soul.
  • Ps 104:15 : 15 And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.
  • Ps 116:13 : 13 I will take the cup of salvation, and give praise to the name of the Lord.
  • Isa 25:6 : 6 And in this mountain will the Lord of armies make for all peoples a feast of good things, a feast of wines long stored, of good things sweet to the taste, of wines long kept and tested.
  • Ps 78:19 : 19 They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?

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  • Ps 23:1-4
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    1 <A Psalm. Of David.> The Lord takes care of me as his sheep; I will not be without any good thing.

    2 He makes a resting-place for me in the green fields: he is my guide by the quiet waters.

    3 He gives new life to my soul: he is my guide in the ways of righteousness because of his name.

    4 Yes, though I go through the valley of deep shade, I will have no fear of evil; for you are with me, your rod and your support are my comfort.

  • 6 Truly, blessing and mercy will be with me all the days of my life; and I will have a place in the house of the Lord all my days.

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    40 For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who came out against me.

    41 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

  • 7 Even when trouble is round me, you will give me life; your hand will be stretched out against the wrath of my haters, and your right hand will be my salvation.

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    8 Be my guide, O Lord, in the ways of your righteousness, because of those who are against me; make your way straight before my face.

  • 30 And on the table at all times you are to keep my holy bread.

  • Ps 41:11-12
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    11 By this I see that you have pleasure in me, because my hater does not overcome me.

    12 And as for me, you are my support in my righteousness, giving me a place before your face for ever.

  • 49 He makes me free from my haters: I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.

  • 11 You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.

  • 41 And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil.

  • Ps 27:1-3
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    1 <Of David.> The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?

    2 When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

    3 Even if an army came against me with its tents, my heart would have no fear: if war was made on me, my faith would not be moved.

  • Ps 18:39-40
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    39 For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.

    40 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

  • 5 They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.

  • 11 Make your way clear to me, O Lord, guiding me by the right way, because of my haters.

  • Ps 27:5-6
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    5 For in the time of trouble he will keep me safe in his tent: in the secret place of his tent he will keep me from men's eyes; high on a rock he will put me.

    6 And now my head will be lifted up higher than my haters who are round me: because of this I will make offerings of joy in his tent; I will make a song, truly I will make a song of praise to the Lord.

  • 7 You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.

  • 5 The Lord is my heritage and the wine of my cup; you are the supporter of my right.

  • 4 And he who is against me may not say, I have overcome him; and those who are troubling me may not be glad when I am moved.

  • 10 The God of my mercy will go before me: God will let me see my desire effected on my haters.

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    3 When my haters are turned back, they will be broken and overcome before you.

  • 5 I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me.

  • 37 You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet make no slip.

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  • 3 For you go before him with the blessings of good things: you put a crown of fair gold on his head.

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  • 8 And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place.

  • 28 You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.

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    3 But your strength, O Lord, is round me, you are my glory and the lifter up of my head.

  • 43 Till I put under your feet all those who are against you.

  • 3 For you have been my secret place, and my high tower from those who made war on me.

  • 10 For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

  • 8 You have taken my soul from the power of death, keeping my eyes from weeping, and my feet from falling.

  • 3 But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.

  • 2 For see! those who make war on you are out of control; your haters are lifting up their heads.

  • 6 For you have made him a blessing for ever: you have given him joy in the light of your face.

  • 7 Because it has been my saviour from all my trouble; and my eyes have seen the punishment of my haters.